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EAD-OceanX-M42-Bayanat Marine Genomics Expedition
Multidisciplinary expedition combining eDNA, microbial analysis, imaging, mapping, and environmental data to study climate impacts on UAE marine ecosystems.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- UAE waters and deep-sea habitats
- Project type
- marine environmental genomics expedition
- Research domain
- marine eDNA, microbial ecology, and climate-change monitoring
- Years
- 2023–2024
- Lifecycle status
- expedition phase completed; collaboration continuity unclear
- Status basis
- Partners signed the agreement in December 2023 and completed a 20-day research expedition in June 2024.
- Status evidence date
- 2024-06-01
- Scale
- Twenty-day expedition; 37 eDNA samples from 19 sites reported, including analysis of microbial community composition.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi
- Partner organizations
- OceanX · M42 · Bayanat
- Organism / population
- Marine microbial and eukaryotic communities in UAE waters
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- environmental DNA
- microbial community sequencing
- marine specimens
- geospatial mapping
- oceanographic data
Data access
No public sequence repository identified.
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named multi-site environmental-genomics expedition with a defined eDNA sample set.
Editorial note
Related to the Jaywun eDNA/fish-genomics baseline and should be cross-linked rather than summed as independent national coverage.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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